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29 reviews
John Toland

Bison Books, 1999

Highly Recommended
This is a fantastic treatment of the Battle of the Bulge originally researched and written in the late 1950's when many of the principals and participants were still around with relatively fresh memories. Toland provides a very comprehensive chronological overview of the entire battle which doesn't bog the reader down with needless minutia. He accurately captures the fluid, chaotic nature of the ...

Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945

4 reviews
Carlo D'este

Harper, 2008

The English Warrior
Martin Gilbert and William Manchester have written muti-volume biographies of the long and fascinating life of Winston Churchill. They cover his fighting life from India and South Africa to the World Wars, his political life from party-switching to Prime Minister, and his personal life from his successful marriage to his career as a painter and writer. Mr. D'este has a narrow focus of exploring ...

General Patton, a Genius for War

1 review
Carlo D'Este, 1995

A Warrior's Life.
Carlo D'Este has written a colossal an exhaustively documented biography of the unparalleled General Patton. He starts portraying Patton's ancestors. Usually this is neglected in many biographies: the micro history of the subject. Frequently, as in this case, it is essential to understand the character. Patton is the offspring of deep rooted American families. Remarkable warriors populate his ...

The Button Box: A Daughter's Loving Memoir Of Mrs. George S. Patton

5 reviews
Ruth Ellen Patton Totten, James Patton Totten

University of Missouri Press, 2005

Incredible Tribute to an Incredible Woman
Ruth Ellen Patton Totten has left us with an extraordinary insight into the lives of the Patton family & most especially a wonderful tribute to her mother, Beatrice Ayer Patton. This book does more than present facts as a biographer would. Ruth Ellen tells the story from an insider's perspective. She not only tells the story but more importantly gives her mother's reaction to some of the most ...

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

41 reviews
Carlo D'Este

Holt Paperbacks, 2003

Massive and insightful biography
This massive biography of Dwight Eisenhower, focusing on his life up until World War II's end (705 pages of text), is a major investment of time--but well worth it. A major strength of this work is the nuanced analysis of Ike, both his strengths and his weaknesses. He had many flaws, but he also had certain character traits that served the nation and the allies well. The author says of ...

The Serengeti's Great Migration

2 reviews
Carlo Mari, Harvey Croze, ...

Abbeville Press, 1900

nothing less than a masterpiece
Review in BBC Wildlife, January 2000, page 78 by BRIAN JACKMAN (writer) On the run The great migration of wildebeest zebras and gazelles across the high plains of East Africa's Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is the biggest wildlife show on Earth. Big subjects deserve a broad canvas, and this book is as big as they come - a coffee-table blockbuster whose wide-screen format is ideal for showing the huge ...

Bitter Victory

2 reviews
Carlo D'Este

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1988

An Outstanding Work
I strongly agree that it is unfortunate this title is out of print. This is the book that turned me on to D'Este's writing. He has an excellent knack for enlivening his very detailed but smooth reading narrative with colorful anecdotes not often seen elsewhere. His account of the fighting around Primosole Bridge (darkly foreshadowing Montgomery's later, very similar failure during Operation ...

Patton: a Genius for War

84 reviews
Carlo D'Este

Harper, 1995

The natural and other lessons
Patton is often described as "controversial". To those who have never fought in war, or perhaps even just engaged in competitive sports, or who otherwise have only a sort of normal, everyday idea about how people ought to act, I suppose he is: Arrogant, sometimes outwardly cruel, demanding, competitive, a taskmaster, single-minded, agressive, angry, all the rest. I've never fought in war, but ...

Decision in Normandy

17 reviews
Carlo D'Este

HarperPerennial, 1991

Still the best, especially on Monty
I was impressed by the many favourable reviews accorded to this book on Amazon.com I especially agree with those reviewers who feel this book is fair and balanced towards a man who must have been nigh on impossible to work with: Field Marshall Montgomery. (Not Churchill's first choice for command of the Eighth Army in North Africa, by the way!) What I found particularly good was the fact ...

Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome

4 reviews
Carlo D'este

Harper Perennial, 2008

D'Este's Best Campaign History to Date...
Since the passing of the late Stephen Ambrose, Carlo D'Este has probably assumed the mantle of America's leading World War II historian and author. This work was his fourth dealing with military events in the European theater (and in this case, the third dealing with the Mediterranean). You probably won't find a better, more detailed account of the Anzio battle than in this book. It's well ...

World War II in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945 (Major Battles and Campaigns)

1 review
Carlo D'Este

Algonquin Books, 1990

A Dark Hole
The Mediterranean theater, to many senior American commanders, represented a sideshow, a bill of goods foist upon them by Winston Churchill and his lieutenants, or a dark hole "into which one entered at one's peril." Carlo D'Este, in this slim, concise volume covers the action from Operation TORCH and the Tunisian campaign, through the conquest of Sicily, the battles of Salerno and Anzio, down to ...

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